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' (No Model.) E. P. PFLUBGBR.

HARNESS ROSETTE. v No. 390,702. Patented Oct. 9, 1888.

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ERNEST F. PFLUEGER, OF AKRON, OHIO.

HARNESS- ROSETTE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390,702, dated October9, 1888.

Application filed July 21, 1887.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST F. PFLUEGER, a citizen of the United States,residing at the town of Akron, in the county of Summit and State ofOhio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Rosettes for theHarness of Horses,of which the following is aspecification.

Heretofore in the construction of rosettes for the harness of horses allthe small glass plates used in the ornamentation thereofwere of com- 1paratively simple form, and, as hitherto, the edges of these glassplates were usually. ground and polished in the higher grades of thesegoods. A great deal of labor and time was expended upon them, and theywere sold at a correspondingly high price. No manufacturer could safelyundertake the manufacture of rosettes comprising glass plates ofpolygonal form, for the reason that the expense of their productioncould not be realized in selling them.

My present invention has been devised to produce rosettes com prisingglass plates of polygonal form which may be easily and quicklymanufactured and cheaply sold.

The invention also consists in the combination, in a rosette for theharness of horses,with a polygonal piece of plate-glass having roughedges, of a separate metallic edge-mounting constructed to cover theedges of the said polygonal piece of plate -glass, and reach far enoughupon the front thereof vto conceal the imperfections of said edges, andextend backward far enough to be folded with its back edges upon a backpiece of the rosette and secure the same in place.

The invention also consists in the details of combination andconstruction, substantially as illustrated in the drawings, hereinafterdescribed, and subsequently pointed out in the claim.

Figures 1, 2,and 3 illustrate front views of rosettes of differentpolygonal shapes constructed according to my invention. Fig. 4illustrates view in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 illustrates a cross-section of mynewly-invented rosette. Fig. 6 is an edge view illustrating the form ofthe metallic edge-mounting hereinaftermore fully described.

The edge-mounting (designated by a b 0) may be made of any suitablemetal. It may be cast Serial No. meson. (No model) or formed of sheetmetal. In the example of my invention here given it is made of sheetmetal and formed from a plain plate with a die. It may be eithertriangular, quadrangular, or of any desired number of sides, or it maybe in the form of a star, as illustrated in Fig. 4:, or of any otherdesired polygonal form. In forming this edge-mounting the sides b areadapted to fit on and cover the edges of the polygonal glass plate whichis to ornament the rosettes. A flange, a, is also formed, which is toextend upon the face of the glass plate i, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2,3, and 5. Vhen thus formed, the planes of the edges 0 coincide withtheplanes of the sides I), as illustrated in Fig. 6. A plate of glasscut of the proper shape to fit in the edge-n1ounting,with its edgesrough, as they were cut, is now put in, with a small part near the edgeof its upper face resting against the flange a. The back of this glassplate may be ornamented in any desired way, either by painting, gilding,or cutting; or the ornamentation may be made by interposing a thin plateor sheet of any polished, painted, cut, gilded,or ornamented material,0,between the glass plate t and the back plate, d, of the rosette, asillustrated in Fig. 5. To this back plate, cl, may be fastened, in anywell-known way, one or more loops, 6, by which the rosette is to beattached to the harness. The back plate, (I, having been put in againstthe sheet or plate 0, the edge 0 is bent over it to secure it in itsplace, as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5. The rosette is then ready foruse. Thus by my invention I avoid the expense of grinding and polishingthe edges of the glass plate, and on that account I can make rosettes ofany polygonal or star shape more cheaply than the simple curved formswere heretofore manufactured. Striking the edge-mounting ant the backplate with ordinary punches and dies of proper form, shaping the glassplate with an ordinary cutting-diamond,and covering upand concealing therough cut edge of the glass with flange a of the edge-mounting, Ifurnish a much more beautiful rosette at a less price.

I am aware that heretofore in the making of rosettes for harness it hasbeen common to use a cup of sheet metal in which was set an oval.

smallpart of thebeveled edge of the glass disk and leaving a largeportion of the edge of the glass disk uncovered, the confining edgebeing an integral portion of the cup. I do not claim a rosette soconstructed.

I am aware, too, that heretofore rosettes for harness have been madewith a circular front plate having a circular hole in the middle, havinga similar back plate with a similar hole in its middle, the two heldtogether by bending the edge of one plate over the edge of the otherplate,and having interposed between the two plates apiece of wire-clothand a piece of enameled leather or other flexible material. I do notclaim such a combination.

I am also aware that heretofore rosettes for harness have been made witha separate edgemounting consisting of a ring screwed on the back plateof the rosette. l have no screw in my r0sette,and do not claim aconstruction in which a screw is used; but

Vhat I do claim as my invention, and dcsire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

An improved article of manufacture consisting of aharness-mounti11g,comprising a trans parent plate of glass having roughened edge; and asubstance such as ground pearl, gold,or silver leaf applied in anornamental manner to the back of the glass, a metal back shaped tocorrespond to the glass plate and having a 0

